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their Circumftances are doubtlefs very deplo- 
table. In all Probability they aflociate with 
the. wild Bees. A wild Notion! | 
In fhort, it is a difficult Matter to fay 
juttly what becomes of them. Why fuch 
a Difficulty ? when every common Bee-Maf- 
ter can eafily account for it; great Numbers 
of them being flain, and often appear in 
Heaps, before the Hive ‘or Colony; and 
the reft of them forced out by the Commons 
perith without Doors, ,as is ealy to obferve 
-in.or about -your Apiary, and adjacent Parts., 
How defective this Author’s Acquaintance 
was with our Infects appears by thefe In-_ 
ftances, befides many more. ‘To return to 
the Argument. 
That thefe Animals fhould continue.in.a 
State of Pregnancy for fo many Months, and 
then produce Young, and {feveral Broods 
fucceflively, one after another, and this with- 
out the Prefence and Concurrence of the Male, 
is to me (I profefs) a Myftery, unaccount- 
able and unintelligible; not to fay impoffi- 
ble. Since fo many Generations are bred. 
before the Drones do appear, it is not poffible 
they fhould be either Males or Females. 
That fuch an Impoffibility may more fully 
appear, and fo givethe Argument the greater 
Strength and Force, I remark, that to my 
own certain Knowledge ,the Bees fometimes 
breed all the Summer Seafon without Drones. _ 
Several poor and weak Stocks, which have 
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